player missed theirs it's never happened put analysts this five million guys. CarlosLee pulls out Rodriguez and Ken Griffey junior. All these guys Josh temple tonight in the -- is it never works. And we

guys in their 30s doesn't work. Ryan Howard , Alex Rodriguez , Alfonso Soriano , Ken Griffey Jr., Jason Giambi and CarlosLee all signed deals for at least $100 million after age 30 and all have failed to come close to earning the dough. The

Dale and Buck discuss where Buchholz will go for his rehab assignment if and when he is ready to start pitching again. A caller asks about waiver wire deals involving the Sox and the guys elaborate. Then they talk about the insanely huge contract that Arizona gave Larry Fitzgerald and if it is even feasible for the Cardinals to pay him.

Sports Saturday rolls on with a discussion of JD Drew and his struggles this season. The guys think criticism is certainly warranted, but he truly has not been as bad a player as everyone has made him out to be. The large contract really cemented his "legacy" in Boston.

if he had stayed in Boston, but that's a reach at best. Why, exactly, would he have been healthier in Boston? CarlosLee was 30 years old when the Astros spent $100 million on him in November 2006. He had hit at least 30 homers in each

signing to impact a club in the immediate future rather than a presence around whom to build. Further, Houston has CarlosLee , a player whose defense suggests he should serve primarily as a DH. VERDICT: Bad fit.

Andre Ethier. His .853 OPS ranked 12th among outfielders, just behind Ethier (.856), and ahead of others such as CarlosLee (.833) and Alfonso Soriano (.832) who received far bigger contracts in that 2006-07 offseason. Though Saturday offered

team found plenty of examples from recent years of in-season swaps involving elite hitters. In 2006, Bobby Abreu and CarlosLee were impact hitters who were dealt. In 2007, Mark Teixeira had moved at the deadline. Teixeira, Jason Bay , Manny

2008 season) or even the $16.7 million a season that CarlosLee got from the Astros. When accounting for all ..... defensive decline, something that cannot be said of CarlosLee or Alfonso Soriano. Since that offseason, it is

Yadier Molina of the Cardinals, and Norichika Aoki of the Brewers. Since the start of the 2002 season, now-Marlin CarlosLee has come to bat 64 times in such situations, hit .259, and homered five times, the most by any single player in that

starters. The 31-year-old Myers has a 3.52 ERA with 19 saves. He was a starter for two seasons with the Astros before taking over as closer this season. The Astros already have traded CarlosLee , Brandon Lyon and J.A. Happ this season.

million in 2012. Heyman added that new Astros owner Jim Crane wants the team to cut $16 million off its payroll, but CarlosLee — the highest-paid player on the Astros at $18.5 million — cannot be traded due to his unspectacular .274 batting

franchise player and recently named All-Star Hunter Pence as well as right-handed starters Bud Norris and Jordan Lyles . CarlosLee , who is owed $18.5 million next season and the balance of that figure this season, will most likely not be moved